Why does it have to be one or the other? Can't we have both-high tech and manufacturing? I do not understand. Are we too stupid not to have both? Or too incompetent?
Everybody does not want to become a tech guru. Everybdoy does not want to work with their hands on complicated, physically difficult manufacutring jobs. Why make everybody the same?
There is room for both. We are doing both well, now. All we need is more of both. Not less of one or the other.

I, too, live in an OMC. However, the wifey and I woud prefer to live in the city because we enjoy things there that are not found in the subs. We cannot do so because of the dysfunctional schools system and dominate dysfunctional people who rule the roost.

5ptsbob: I get a hardy laugh when liberals use the term "white flight" as if that occurrence caused the ills of urban society. Are you saying that those middle/upper middle/wealthy class blacks who left the "poor" behind are blameless? How about this: Are you saying that black folks are too stupid to progress and live civilized lives WITHOUT white folks in their neighborhoods?
Maybe you libs need to use the term "economic flight" or "fleeing dysfunction flight"? If you did, I would tend to agree with that terminology and we may have some common ground to work on.

Brillant analysis that I wish I wrote. Like you, I realize that those who have been conditioned to vote the public trough need to be weened gradually off the system. But, what is the defintion of gradually?

I thought that hiring of Petelos was to make the county government more streamlined and reduce costs. I guess I was wrong. Looks like he was hired to continue the charade of "we need more money". Well, so do I. But, for the last couple of years I have cut back to the bone and the county and those feeding off government money must, also.
And to be quite blunt-I know I will be savaged-those who are taking and have been forever it seems need to start producing.

Yeah, right. We got the Updykes, the people who shoot their kids when football games are lost, men who whip out their private parts and rub them on an opposing fan in a public restaraunt, fans who can't spell Tuscaloosa if you spotted them Tusca and on and on. And we're crazy? GFY.

An FOIA(Freedom Of Information Act)request is very simple to do, Jon. I am quite sure "Fiddy" St. John, Espy and Bryant, Jr. are ALL issued State cell phone and computer email access. That is public information and we have every right to see it. Why don't you file a few and see if who and when they were talking to at UAB when certain coaches were at UAB?

Meet the INSIDER who DID shape UAB's football future: Paul Bryant, Jr. His hiring of Mr. Callaway was an unmitigated DISASTER and set us back a decade and cost us millions and millions of dollars of revenue. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Solomon.
UAT can go about twenty five years being irrelevant in collge football except for one year(1991 or 1992 can't remember)and then spend litterally hundreds of millions of dollars-some of taxpayer money to start becoming relevant again and WE SPEND 40K TO FIND US SOME FOLKS WHO JUST MIGHT BE ABLE TO GENERATE THE REVENUE AND WIN GAMES THAT WE NEED AND YOU WRITE SOME NITPICKING BS ABOUT PAYING A CONSULTANT....UNREAL.

When the libs/socialists start "compromising" to the conservatives/libertarians, then we can talk. Why is it that the conservatives MUST compromise with liberal/socialist ideology and if they don't they are the ones stopping "progress"? The power grap by FDR liberals/socialists because of a crisis" must be undone."

Don't know what your studying but the courts have limited in just the past few years regarding ILLEGAL aliens portions of free speech, gun rights and certain workers comp rights. There are many more examples. Once again, ILLEGAL aliens rights under our Constituion are HIGHLY limited.

Sometimes you got to pick and choose. All actions do not require the same reaction. I think this is more a political ploy. But, I like the effort by the House. The US must enforce the immigration laws and if they ain't well let the States have at it.